It all went terribly wrong today 
I had been looking forward to this morning all week long, I thought we had the car dailed in and ready to go and I was expecting a great outing. However it was anything but. we had been fighting a bad battery(or so we thought) right up until few days before the event, I put a brand new optima in and everything seemed great.
I just drove all the way back home from goliad and am a bit tired not to mention bruised, my ego that is
I had a bet with mullet that I could best his time today of 223.8, but hat was not in the cards today.
I lined up at start and started my burn out, did two good burn outs but the new R6's were so sticky they were literally pushing the car forward with the front wheels still locked up. we think this may have caused the clutch to start slipping a bit. well then I line up and let her loose going through the gears and make my pass it didnt feel particularly that strong but I was not sure. when I pulled to get my timing slip I was surprised that it ran a 200.
I was a bit confused I pulled up and open the clam shell, then the strong smell of the clutch was very apparent and we knew right away that it was slippin or so we thought, I was a bit discouraged but thought oh well I'll let her cool down and will try again,
two hours later Im at the line again with the help of Mullet we push the car to the front while he has his foot on the clutch the whole way as to keep the disk seperated in order to cool them (thanks Jason) then Im ready for the next run. I get to the start line and launch my car , no burn out this time, I go through the gears and to my dissapointment the nos was not working at all the run was slow and there was nothing I could do, it ran a 193 which makes sense, the car makes a little over 700 off the spray in its current tune. it was a disapointing trip to say the least, there was no time for another run and frankly I was so upset I didnt want to run again, (now I feel your pain Torrie)
I should note that jason was great, he helped us out in every way imaginable even though it was his record we were going after, he is a class act and Im proud to be chasing his record. Jason did great and the 223.8 was an awesome run in the morning, again proving the class of members that hang out on this forum!!:thumbsup
we came up short today, but on the upside we were all safe and although I need to do some more work to the car we did not break anything.
IMORTANT:
one very important thing that we found by coincedence was that the alternator was not charging properly, the only way we realized this is through a function of my stereo,the kenwood stereo had a display function the shows voltage, the reason this is important to you guys is that even though my volt meter show voltage within range it was anything but, at idle my car was seeing anywhere from 10 to 12.5 volts, the new battery we put in a few days ago worked really good for a day
then the car started having all the same symptoms, bad idle, sticky solenoids, and it would die if I came to a stop I had to keep my foot on the gas the whole time. I didnt think it would affect the nos system but it has, everytime there was a load placed on the charging system the noid did not open, It was like last texas mile all over again.:willy
anyway no excuses, jason won this round and I will have to wear his special t shirt, I will post pics
If I had to lose to anyone Im glad it was MULLET
we will take our loss and be back working on the car getting her ready once again for the upcoming mile event in may. hopfully it will be a better day for us.
thanks to brian and tim my friends who helped out on this trip, it would have not been possible or fun without them!
